Question

Write a short note on sugar industry.

Answer 1

India is the largest producer of sugar including traditional cane sugar sweeteners, khandsari and Gur. It was in 1903 that sugar mills on modern lines were successfully started in Bihar. Sugarcane is the key raw material for the producing of sugar in India. The sugar industry is concentrated in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Haryana and Punjab in the north and the other that of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh in the south.